The International Space University is proud to announce that Graz University of Technology has been selected to host its 24th Space Studies program to be held in the summer of 2011 in Graz, Austria. The dates of SSP11 will be 11 July - 09 September 2011.

The areas of strength of Graz University of Technology are combined in five interdisciplinary fields of expertise. These key fields make up the scientific fingerprint of the university at the heart of Europe on its journey to the international pinnacle. Excellent contacts with industry and business can be seen in numerous participations in scientific competence centres and research networks. Co-operations with scientific partner institutes act as a further dynamo to success. Scientists carry out research and development at the highest level in the seven faculties and their 100-plus institutes. All these factors relate to ISU’s international, interdisciplinary and intercultural credo.

The city of Graz is indeed strikingly beautiful, to the point of rendering one sleepless. Self-confidently, the city presents itself and others both with new, fascinating landmarks and historic monuments, among them entire parts of the city, such as the Old Town, ennobled and protected as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site. But Graz is above all a melting pot of cultures. Since centuries, musicians, literates, architects and designer set the tone in this Cultural Capital.

“In 2011 Graz University of Technology will be celebrating its 200th anniversary. Two centuries after its foundation the university with its crystal-clear scientific focus is younger than ever before. Space Science has become one of its outstanding areas of competence. With its active participation in international and national space projects in the areas of satellite communication & navigation, remote sensing, satellite geodesy, and space science TU Graz is in an excellent position to host and contribute to the prestigious Space Studies Program in 2011” says Hans Sünkel, rector of TU Graz.